Vesta Mae LARSON

1908 - 2007  (99 years)

• Name	Vesta Mae LARSON
  Birth	12 Apr 1908	Britt, Hancock County, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	C61B118C76E44B7BBC049DDF7446C3AC036D
  Death	2 Nov 2007	Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
  Burial	Crystal Lake Cemetery, Hancock County, Iowa, USA   [2]
  Notes	Per Stephen Hunsley, Vesta was the daughter of Laurice LARSON and Cora Lenora OZMUN. Vesta was 99 when she died. findagrave.com has the following: Vesta Mae Hunsley, 99, had her home going to be with her Lord on November 2, 2007, in Phoenix, Arizona.Burial will be in the Crystal Lake Cemetery in Crystal Lake, her home town and where six generations of Larson's are buried. She will be laid to rest next to her beloved Orville.Vesta was born on April 12, 1908, at home in rural Britt, the daughter of Laurice and Cora Ozmun Larson. At the age of two, Vesta was a victim of the great Polio epidemic of 1910. Physical limitations never became an obstacle to her accomplishments, as her motivation and perseverance prevailed. She married Orville M. Hunsley on May 13, 1934, in the same home where she was born. To this union a son was born, John Laurice Hunsley. Vesta graduated from the Crystal Lake High School in 1926 and graduated from Bible Institute Academy in Minneapolis. She and her husband owned a Jack Sprat Grocery Store and Produce from 1937 to 1952 in Crystal Lake. They closed the store when Orville passed away in 1952. Vesta and her son, John moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1962. Vesta was the honored guest at the Cancer Relay for Life Rally in 2002, being the oldest and a 47 year cancer survivor. Both mother and son celebrated being cancer survivors. Vesta is survived by her grateful and loving son, John Hunsley and daughter-in-law, Sonna Lea Hunsley; grandsons, Stephen John Hunsley and wife, Kay Hunsley of Overland Park, Kansas and David Orville Hunsley of Phoenix; great-grandsons, Luke Stephen Hunsley and Mark Andrew Hunsley, both of Overland Park; and her sister, Naomi Larson of Missouri. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Orville Hunsley in June 1952; parents, Laurice and Cora Larson; two sisters and a brother; and her infant grandson, Mark Carroll Hunsley. They are all reunited together with their Lord.© 2007 Forest City Summit
  Person ID	I153	Hunsley
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2014

  
  

  Family	Orville Marcel HUNSLEY,   b. 30 Aug 1902, Cisco, Piatt County, Illinois, USA d. 18 Jun 1953, Britt, Hancock County, Iowa, USA (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1934	Methodist Church, Crystal Lake, Hancock County, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Children	1. John Laurice HUNSLEY
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Stephen Hunsley, November 2013. [S3] findagrave.com, November 2013 and later.